A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)

Chapter 33

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Had I but plenty of money, money enough and to spare vi. 66 Hamelin Town's in Brunswick v. 102 "Heigho!" yawned one day King Francis v. 36 Here is a story shall stir you! Stand up, Greeks dead and gone xv. 85 Here is a thing that happened. Like wild beasts whelped, for den xv. 26 Here's my case. Of old I used to love him xiv. 54 Here's the garden she walked across vi. 19 Here was I with my arm and heart vii. 94 High in the dome, suspended, of Hell, sad triumph, behold us! xv. 199 Hist, but a word, fair and soft! vi. 196 How of his fate, the Pilgrims' soldier-guide xvi. 40 How very hard it is to be v. 264 How well I know what I mean to do vi. 126

I and Clive were friends--and why not? Friends! I think you laugh, my lad xv. 88 I am a goddess of the ambrosial courts iv. 181 I am indeed the personage you know xiv. 86 I am poor brother Lippo, by your leave! iv. 205 I could have painted pictures like that youth's iv. 202 I dream of a red-rose tree vi. 180 I know a Mount, the gracious Sun perceives iv. 294 I leaned on the turf vii. 54 I--"Next Poet?" No, my hearties xiv. 31 I only knew one poet in my life iv. 176 I said--Then, dearest, since 't is so v. 96 I send my heart up to thee, all my heart v. 66 I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris, and he vi. 9 I've a Friend, over the sea v. 44 I will be quiet and talk with you vii. 51 I wish that when you died last May vii. 165 I wonder do you feel to-day vi. 150 If a stranger passed the tent of Hóseyn, he cried "A churl's!" xv. 108 If one could have that little head of hers vii. 176 Is all our fire of shipwreck wood vii. 47 It is a lie--their Priests, their Pope vi. 34 It once might have been, once only vii. 171 It was roses, roses, all the way v. 6

June was not over vi. 161 Just for a handful of silver he left us vi. 7

Karshish, the picker up of learning's crumbs iv. 186 Kentish Sir Byng stood for his King vi. 3 King Charles, and who'll do him right now? vi. 5 "Knowledged deposed, then!"--groaned whom that most grieved xvi. 62

Let them fight it out, friend! things have gone too far vi. 183 Let's contend no more, Love vi. 48 Let us begin and carry up this corps v. 154 "Look, I strew beans" xvi. 69

May I print, Shelley, how it came to pass xiv. 104 Morning, evening, noon and night v. 19 Moses the Meek was thirty cubits high xv. 254 My first thought was, he lied in every word v. 194 My grandfather says he remembers he saw, when a youngster long ago xv. 3 My heart sank with our claret-flask vi. 16 My love, this is the bitterest, that thou vi. 142

Nay but you, who do not love her vi. 47 Never any more vi. 175 Never the time and the place xv. 256 Nobly, nobly Cape Saint Vincent to the North-west died away vi. 97 "No boy, we must not"--so began xiv. 117 No, for I'll save it! Seven years since vii. 246 No more wine? then we'll push back chairs and talk iv. 238 No protesting, dearest! xiv. 71 Now, don't, sir! Don't expose me! Just this once! vii. 182 Now that I, tying thy glass mask tightly vi. 30

O the old wall here! How I could pass xiv. 3 O worthy of belief I hold it was xv. 159 Of the million or two, more or less v. 24 Oh but is it not hard, Dear? xv. 195 Oh Galuppi, Baldassaro, this is very sad to find! vi. 72 Oh, good gigantic smile o' the brown old earth vii. 61 Oh, Love--no, Love! All the noise below, Love xvi. 90 Oh, the beautiful girl, too white vii. 69 Oh, to be in England vi. 95 Oh, what a dawn of day! vi. 58 On the first of the Feast of Feasts vii. 250 On the sea and at the Hogue, sixteen hundred ninety two xiv. 77 One day it thundered and lightened xv. 197 Only the prism's obstruction shows aright vii. 167 Out of the little chapel I burst v. 209 Over the ball of it xiv. 49

_Petrus Aponensis_--there was a magician! xv. 117 Plague take all your pedants, say I! vi. 22 Pray, Reader, have you eaten ortolans xvi. 3

Query: was ever a quainter xiv. 5 Quoth an inquirer, "Praise the Merciful!" xvi. 32 Quoth one: "Sir, solve a scruple! No true sage xvi. 47

Room after room vi. 170 Round the cape of a sudden came the sea vi. 46

Said Abner, "At last that art come! Ere I tell, ere thou speak vi. 98 See, as the prettiest graves will do in time vi. 45 Shall I sonnet-sing you about myself? xiv. 39 She should never have looked at me vi. 39 Sing me a hero! Quench my thirst xv. 57 So far as our story approaches the end v. 92 So, friend, your shop was all your house! xiv. 42 So, I shall see her in three days vi. 172 Solomon King of the Jews and the Queen of Sheba Balkis xv. 182 Some people hang portraits up vii. 178 Stand still, true poet that you are! vi. 192 Still ailing, Wind? Wilt be appeased or no? vii. 56 Still you stand, still you listen, still you smile! xiv. 63 Stop, let me have the truth of that! vii. 85 Stop playing, poet! May a brother speak? iv. 173 Suppose that we part (work done, comes play) xv. 258 [Supposed of Pamphylax the Antiochene vii. 120

Take the cloak from his face, and at first vi. 186 That fawn-skin-dappled hair of hers vi. 163 That second time they hunted me v. 47 That's my last Duchess painted on the wall v. 8 That was I, you heard last night vi. 155 The grey sea and the long black land vi. 46 The Lord, we look to once for all v. 161 The morn when first it thunders in March vi. 77 "The poets pour us wine--" xiv. 141 The rain set early in to-night v. 191 The swallow has set her six young on the rail vii. 4 There is nothing to remember in me vii. There's a palace in Florence, the world knows well v. 178 There's heaven above, and night by night iv. 199 There they are, my fifty men and women iv. 296 "They tell me, your carpenters," quoth I to my friend the Russ xv. 32 This is a spray the Bird clung to vi. 154 This now, this other story makes amends xv. 209 Touch him ne'er so lightly, into song he broke xv. 164 'Twas Bedford Special Assize, one Daft Midsummer's Day xv. 60

Vanity, saith the preacher, vanity! iv. 232

Wanting is--what? xv. 167 We were two lovers; let me lie by her xiv. 61 What, I disturb thee at thy morning-meal xvi. 53 What is he buzzing in my ears? vii. 162 What's become of Waring v. 78 Where the quiet-coloured end of evening smiles vi. 54 'Will sprawl, now that the heat of day is best vii. 149 Will you hear my story also xv. 169 Would it were I had been false, not you! vii. 78 Would that the structure brave, the manifold music I build vii. 101

"You are sick, that's sure"--they say xv. 83 You know, we French stormed Ratisbon v. 3 Your ghost will walk, you lover of trees vi. 92 You're my friend v. 116

INDEX.

Abt Vogler, 244.

Adam, Lilith and Eve, 325.

After, 294-5.

Andrea del Sarto, 249.

Another Way of Love, 284.

Any Wife to Any Husband, 227.

Apparent Failure, 307.

Appearances, 298.

Aristophanes' Apology; or, the Last Adventure of Balaustion, with the "Herakles," 123-27.

Artemis Prologizes, 119.

At the "Mermaid," 213.

Balaustion's Adventure, with the "Alkestis," 123.

Before, 294.

Bifurcation, 217.

Bishop Blougram's Apology, 172.

Bishop orders his Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church, The, 246.

Blot in the 'Scutcheon A, 62.

Boy and the Angel, The, 301.

By the Fireside, 226.

Caliban upon Setebos; or, Natural Theology in the Island, 195.

Cavalier Tunes, 299.

Cenciaja, 269.

"Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, 273.

Christmas Eve and Easter-Day, 179.

Cleon, 193.

Clive, 316.

Colombe's Birthday, 65.

Confessional, The, 252.

Confessions, 297.

Count Gismond, 300.

Cristina, 225.

Cristina and Monaldeschi, 324.

Deaf and Dumb: a group by Woolner, 204.

Death in the Desert, A, 198.

"De Gustibus ----" 286.

Dîs aliter Visum; or, Le Byron de Nos Jours, 217.

Doctor ----, 320.

Donald, 322.

Earth's Immortalities, 293.

Echetlos, 315.

Englishman in Italy, The, 287.

Epilogue to "Dramatic Idyls," 2nd series, 315.

Epilogue to "Dramatis Personæ," 240.

Epilogue to "Pacchiarotto and other Poems," 213, 215.

Epilogue to "The Two Poets of Croisic" (a tale), 222.

Epistle, An, 194.

Eurydice to Orpheus: a picture by Leighton, 248.

Evelyn Hope, 225.

Face, A, 247.

Fears and Scruples, 241.

Ferishtah's Fancies, 331.

Fifine at the Fair, 150.

Filippo Baldinucci on the Privilege of Burial, 281.

Flight of the Duchess, The, 274.

Flower's Name, The, (Garden Fancies, I.), 293.

Forgiveness, A, 252.

Fra Lippo Lippi, 242.

Glove, The, 301.

Gold Hair: a Story of Pornic, 303.

Grammarian's Funeral, A, 296.

Guardian-Angel, The: a picture at Fano, 248

Halbert and Hob, 310.

Heretic's Tragedy, The; a Middle-Age Interlude, 270.

Hervé Kiel, 303.

Holy-Cross Day, 277.

Home-Thoughts, from Abroad, 286.

Home-Thoughts, from the Sea, 293.

House, 216.

How it strikes a Contemporary, 212.

"How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix," 300.

In a Balcony, 73.

In a Gondola, 230.

Incident of the French Camp, 300.

Inn Album, The, 262.

Instans Tyrannus, 304.

In Three Days, 230.

Introduction to "The Two Poets of Croisic" (Apparitions), 222.

Italian in England, The, 305.

Ivàn Ivànovitch, 311.

Ixion, 325.

James Lee's Wife, 232.

Jochanan Hakkadosh, 326.

Johannes Agricola in Meditation, 296.

King Victor and King Charles, 58.

Laboratory, The, 250.

La Saisiaz, 188.

Last Ride Together, The, 295.

Life in a Love, 228.

Light Woman, A, 216.

Likeness, A, 298.

Lost Leader, The, 292.

Lost Mistress, The, 229.

Love among the Ruins, 225.

Love in a Life, 228.

Love, one Way of, 229.

Lover's Quarrel, A, 226.

Luria, 70.

Magical Nature, 222.

Martin Relph, 309.

Mary Wollstonecraft and Fuseli, 325.

Master Hugues of Saxe-Gotha, 210.

May and Death, 297.

Meeting at Night, 304.

Memorabilia, 295.

Mesmerism, 305.

Misconceptions, 293.

Mr. Sludge, "The Medium," 175.

Muléykeh, 317.

My Last Duchess, 250.

My Star, 293.

Nationality in Drinks, 292.

Natural Magic, 222.

Ned Bratts, 313.

Never the Time and the Place, 330.

Numpholeptos, 221.

Old Pictures in Florence, 208.

One Word More. To E. B. B., 219.

Pacchiarotto, and How He Worked in Distemper, 279.

Pambo, 330.

Pan and Luna, 321.

Paracelsus, 22.

Parleyings with Certain People of importance in their Day, 339.

Parting at Morning, 304.

Patriot, The; an Old Story, 304.

Pauline, 18.

Pheidippides, 310.

Pictor Ignotus, 245.

Pied Piper of Hamelin, The; a Child's Story, 302.

Pietro of Abano, 318.

Pippa Passes, 55.

Pisgah-Sights, I., 218.

Pisgah-Sights, II., 218.

Popularity, 212.

Porphyria's Lover, 231.

Pretty Woman, A, 293.

Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, Saviour of Society, 161.

Prologue to "Dramatic Idyls," 2nd series, 315.

Prologue to "Pacchiarotto and other Poems," 222.

Prologue to "La Saisiaz" (Pisgah-Sights, III.), 299.

Prospice, 221.

Protus, 306.

Rabbi Ben Ezra, 203.

Red Cotton Night-Cap Country; or, Turf and Towers, 255.

Respectability, 216.

Return of the Druses, The, 60.

Ring and the Book, The, 75.

Rudel to the Lady of Tripoli, 230.

Saul, 238.

Serenade at the Villa, A, 229.

Shop, 216.

Sibrandus Schafnaburgens's (Garden Fancies, II.), 284.

Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister, 251.

Solomon and Balkis, 323.

Song, 300.

Sordello, 28.

Soul's Tragedy, A, 68.

Statue and the Bust, The, 205.

St. Martin's Summer, 299.

Strafford, 53.

Through the Metidja to Abd-el-Kadr, 304.

Time's Revenges, 305.

Toccata of Galuppi's, A, 247.

Too Late, 236.

"Transcendentalism: a Poem in Twelve Books," 212.

Transcripts from the Greek, 118.

Tray, 313.

Twins, The, 302.

Two in the Campagna, 228.

Two Poets of Croisic, The, 266.

Up at a Villa--Down in the City, 283.

Wanting is--what? 322.

Waring, 307.

Woman's Last Word, A, 229.

Women and Roses, 294.

Worst of it, The, 236.

Year, In a, 294.

Youth and Art, 298.